Community History: Sex, Marriage and Population

With Penny Gore, including a chance to win tickets for a Mahler Prom.
7.05 lbert Trois pièces breves
Berlin Philharmonic Wind
Quintet
7.32 Pietro Paulo Borrono
Pavana chiamata la desperata; Saltarello; Tocha tocha la Canella
Paul O'Dette (lute)
7.40 Copland Old American Songs (Set 1)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
St Paul CO/Hugh Wolff
8.05 Othmar Schoeck
Serenade, Op 1
ECO/Howard Griffiths
8.32 Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, director Stephen Cleobury
8.43 Haydn Piano Trio in G (H XV 25)
Erich Hobarth (violin)
Christophe Coin (cello) Patrick Cohen (piano) Discs

With Donald Macleod.
Readings by Tessa Worsley and John Turner.
5: Music in St Petersburg Concert music in the tity where many 18th-century aristocrats had their own serf orchestras. This final programme includes an anonymous symphony, a harpsichord concerto by Galuppi and Dmitri Bortnlansky s Septet for string quartet, harp, bassoon and piano.

From Cardiff with Nicola
Heywood Thomas.
10.00 Artist of the Week:
Mark Elder (conductor)
Verdi Pace, pace, mio dio (La Forza del Destino)
Josephine Barstow (soprano) Orchestra of English National Opera
10.05 Mozart Clarinet
Quintet in A (K581)
Alan Hacker (clarinet) Salomon Quartet
10.45 John Adams Short
Ride in a Fast Machine
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Mark Elder
10.50 Faure Une sainte en son auréole
Dietrich Rscher-Dieskau (bar) Gerald Moore (piano)
11.00 Shostakovich
Incidental music: Hamlet (1954 production)
CBSO/Mark Elder
11.05 Sibelius Symphony No 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka
11.50 Offenbach Final scene (Orpheus in the Underworld)
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English
National Opera/Mark Elder

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm

With Susan Sharpe.

Malcolm Binns (piano)
Schumann Carnaval , Op 9 Moscheles L'Enjouement; L 'Ambition (Methode des Methodes)
Herz Variations on "Vivi tu"
Rpt

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Tan Dun
Cho-Liang Lin (violin)
Takemttsu Requiem for strings
Tan Dun On Taoism
Varese Intégrales
Tan Dun Out of Peking Opera

Susan Sharpe introduces one of the hits of the 1960s - John Tavener 's
The Whale, which
David Atherton and the London
Sinfonietta brought to the Royal Albert Hall in 1969, the year after its premiere. Plus an unusual Prom from
1979 with a Javanese gamelan orchestra: and from 1987, improvisation by Loose Tubes. "Music will never be the same again." Producer Susan Kenyon
FAIREST ISLE

An audio lexicon of the great English comedy performers. Russell Davies celebrates the work of Gerard Hoffnung.

Cesaria Evora
Jo Shinner presents the first of six programmes exploring the music of various countries.
The series begins with "the barefoot diva" from the Cape Verde Islands, who sings Sodade, Petit Pays and Xhandina in the melancholic moma style. An Angell Sound production

The Serial Detective
5: The Sting
The serial detective pulls together the evidence to show the effect of Schoenberg's serial ideas on composers today. With Paul Griffiths, Alexander Goehr, Judith Weir and Christopher Fox.
Written by Rony Robinson and Andy Cartwright
A Soundscape production

With Richard Baker, including
Gounod Vulcan's Song (Philemon and Baucis)
6.03 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2
6.30 Ambroise Thomas Gavotte (Mignon)

From the Royal
Albert Hall , London.
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
Mendelssohn Overture: A
Midsummer Night's Dream Hans Wemer Henze
Symphony No 8 (UK premiere)
7.45 Heroic Musicology Jan Smaczny takes a quizzical look at the three periods of Beethoven's life. Rpt
8.05 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)

With Iwan Russell-Jones .
5: The Digital Super-Highway Rpt
For details see Monday

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Danseuses de Delphes; Les Collines d'Anacapri; Des pas sur la neige: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
(Preludes, Book I); Pour les degres chromatiques; Pour les arpeges composes:
Pour les octaves (Etudes) Rpt

From the Royal Albert Hall, London, a three-hour late-night Prom featuring music from the Far East. From Korea, Samul Nori, the leading drum and dance ensemble. From China, the pipa virtuoso Wu Man and ensemble, playing a wide variety of traditional Chinese instruments. And from Thailand, Fong Naam, an ensemble mixing traditional and contemporary styles.

11.45 Interval
Louisa Waugh takes a look at women travellers in China since the turn of the century.

12.05 Proms Part 2